Over the past few decades, thanks to volunteers, librarians, and archivists, a great number of indexes to obituary information and transcriptions of obituaries from newspapers have been provided for free online. These searchable indexes provide the location in old newspapers where the obituary can be found. Sometimes the scanned newspaper clipping is included. And remember you […]
Author: Kenneth R Marks
Kenneth R Marks was born and educated in the San Francisco Bay Area, receiving a BS in Mathematics in 1968. His career was in Information Technology; with the last 20 Years as a software executive with Boeing, Pearson, and NASA. His genealogy career began in 2004. He is an expert in newspaper research for genealogy, as well as additional genealogy topics. He regularly conducts webinars on the subject and has authored three genealogy books. See the About page for more details.
The Ancestor Hunt, founded in 2008, is focused on helping genealogy and family history researchers of all skill levels to achieve their goals, by providing links to free online genealogy collections, and search tips and techniques, largely via easy-to-understand Quick Reference Guides.
Chronicling America, the newspaper collection available for online research of United States historical newspapers regularly updates its collection. Here are the updated titles for April 2024. Some are new titles and some are added to an existing title’s pages in the database. There are 70 in total. Important Note: These links are to the NEW […]
Newspapers.Com is one of the larger subscription newspaper sites. At the date of this publication, they claim over 956 million digitized pages from 25,877 titles. Here is a list of the new titles from the past month. United States Arkansas California Colorado District of Columbia Florida Georgia Illinois Indiana Kentucky Louisiana Maryland Massachusetts Minnesota Nebraska […]
The British Newspaper Archive, a subscription site owned by FindMyPast, has announced its updates for April 2024. There are 14 New Titles and 66 Titles that have had issues added. There are a total of over 76.9 million pages available on the site. A complete list of all of the site’s titles can be found HERE. […]
Find My Past is an underappreciated source for digitized newspapers. It is a subscription site that specializes in British and Irish newspapers. Currently their collection numbers over 77.1 million pages. It is growing rapidly. This month, Find My Past added 15 new titles and added to 71 existing titles. They are listed below: New Titles Updated […]
NewspaperARCHIVE, a subscription site, has announced its’ updates for April 2024. There are 7 New Titles and 62 Titles that have had issues added. There are over 16,000 titles available on the site. A complete list of all of the site’s titles can be found HERE. Below are the titles added or updated this month, […]
Ancestry.com continues to add or update its records collections at a fast pace for us to search. For the period of April 1-30, 2024, the new and updated collections are: I hope that some of these are what you have been waiting for! Good Luck and Happy Hunting!
FamilySearch continues to add or update its records collections at a fast pace for us to search. For the period of April 1-30, 2024, the added/updated collections are: For a complete list of all added/updated collections, go to https://familysearch.org/search/collection/list I hope that some of these are what you have been waiting for! Good Luck and […]
One of the main goals for genealogists is to find obituaries. Obituaries are a gold mine of information. They provide death dates and locations, funeral and cemetery information, and more importantly – information about the relatives of the deceased’s family and extended family. This family name information is often not found anywhere else. Over the past […]
One of the main goals for genealogists is to find obituaries. Obituaries are a gold mine of information. They provide death dates and locations, funeral and cemetery information, and more importantly – information about the relatives of the deceased’s family and extended family. This family name information is often not found anywhere else. Over the past […]